I have blogged about aerial wildland firefighting since 2009. I am not a firefighter and am not a pilot, just an interested bystander who wants to learn more and share what I learn here. Join me here as I blog on the aircraft and the pilots who fight wildland fires from the air in support of crews on the ground. I also blog on concerns affecting fire crews on the ground as well as other aviation and meteorology issues. Learn what it takes to do jobs that are staffed by the best of the best.

Monday, March 31, 2014

Prescribed Burns - USFS

Over the next three or four posts, I am going to posting about prescribed burns.

This is a video from the United States Forest Service on how they do prescribed burns in the Mark Twain National Forest. I like this video because they talk about the importance of prescribed burns. The specifics of preparing for and conducting prescribed burns in your area may differ from what is shown in this video. And the vegetation may well be different.

GOES-16 Gravity Waves off of USA southeast coast

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In putting together this blog, I have some additional pages (listed above) with some information on aerial wildland firefighting and general aviation that may be of interest. There is way to much information to include on these pages, but I hope that there is enough here to get you started.

If you landed here Looking for Info on a specific wildfire in the U.S. and Canada, I hope that I have provided some links and information that will get you started. Information about types and current status of air tankers (U.S. and some info for Canada) may be found under airtankers 101 (last updated in June 2017). You will find some more general information about aviation on the aviation info and links page. Finally I have included a favorite links page where there are some links for Ag Aviation. All the pages mentioned here were last updated on or about late June 2017.

When I come to the edge of all the light I know, and am about to step off into the darkness of the unknown. Faith is knowing one of two things will happen: either there will be something solid to stand on or I will be taught how to fly. Barbara J. Winter